HBO has released a trailer for Lisa Cholodenko‘s Olive Kitteridge miniseries starring Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). The Kids Are All Right filmmaker helms this four-part miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about “the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.” Frances plays Olive and Richard Jenkins portrays her husband, Henry. Watch the 30-second HBO Olive Kitteridge miniseries trailer embedded after the jump.

HBO Olive Kitteridge Miniseries Trailer

The trailer is more of a teaser promo than anything else, so I’m not sure what to make of it. The whole miniseries premiered at the Venice Film Festival a week ago and was met with raves. The first two parts of the HBO Olive Kitteridge miniseries will premiere on November 2nd 2014 at 9:00 PM. The final two installments will be shown on the following day, November 3rd 2014, also at 9:00 PM.

An HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone production in association with As Is, OLIVE KITTERIDGE is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Frances McDormand and Jane Anderson, and marks Hanks and Goeztman’s fifth miniseries with HBO under the Playtone banner, following the Emmy® winners “The Pacific,” “John Adams,” “Band of Brothers” and “From the Earth to the Moon.” Other HBO/Playtone collaborations include the Emmy®-winning HBO Films presentation “Game Change,” the series “Big Love” and a number of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame specials. Steven Shareshian co-executive produces.

The story, which spans 25 years over the four parts, focuses on Olive, a middle-school math teacher, and her relationships with Henry, the good-hearted town pharmacist, their son Christopher, who chafes at his mother’s parenting style, and other denizens of their community.

The supporting cast features Golden Globe® winner Bill Murray (“Lost in Translation”) as Jack Kennison, a widower befriended by Olive; John Gallagher, Jr. (HBO’s “The Newsroom”) as Christopher, Olive and Henry’s son; Emmy® nominee Peter Mullan (“Top of the Lake”) as Jim O’Casey, a fellow teacher at Olive’s school; Rosemarie DeWitt (“Mad Men”) as Rachel Coulson, a shut-in who is one of Henry’s customers at the pharmacy; Zoe Kazan (“Ruby Sparks”) as Denise Thibodeau, who works at the pharmacy; and Ann Dowd (“Side Effects”) as Bonnie, a Kitteridge family friend.